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Posted on 05/02/2010 9:09:28 AM PDT by kristinn
A top Pakistani Taliban commander took credit for yesterday's failed car bomb attack in New York City.
Qari Hussain Mehsud, the top bomb maker for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, said he takes "fully responsibility for the recent attack in the USA." Qari Hussain made the claim on an audiotape accompanied by images that was released on a YouTube website that calls itself the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan News Channel.
The tape has yet to be verified, but US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal believe it is legitimate. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan News Channel on YouTube was created on April 30. Officials believe it was created to announce the Times Square attack, and Qari Hussain’s statement was pre-recorded.
"This attack is a revenge for the great & valuable martyred leaders of mujahideen," Qari Hussain said. He listed Baitullah Mehsud, the former leader of the Pakistani Taliban who was killed in a Predator strike in August 2009, and Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the former leader of al Qaeda Islamic State of Iraq who was killed by Iraqi forces in mid-April. And although he was not mentioned, an image of Abu Ayyub al Masri, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, was also displayed in the images accompanying the audiotape.
Qari Hussain also said the failed attack was "revenge for the Global American interference & terrorism in Muslim countries, especially in Pakistan for Lal Masjid operation," a reference to the July 2008 Pakistani military assault on Islamists holed up in the Red Mosque in Islamabad, as well as Predator strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas and the arrest and detention of Pakistani scientist Aifa Siddique.
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This is what the Intelligence services are supposed to be all about: giving us the heads-up about groups like this - and quiet wet-work to get rid of the Bad Guys.
Incinerating hundreds of thousands of people, and poisoning millions more, won’t make us any safer. Even dropping a big bomb on a town where we believe them to be hiding (somewhere) can have severe blow-back.
We ought to do this the right way: quietly, efficiently, murderously. Our agents should be dropping these dudes with poisons and other tactics that look natural. We shouldn’t even be hearing these terrorist’s names, because they never live lone enough to get famous.
And give the t-shirt vendor who reported the smoke a ticker-tape parade. Make him famous. Bloomberg, give him a cash prize.
Make it pay off in fame and fortune for the everyday citizens who stop these kinds of attacks. Turn every citizen into an intelligence operative, as it were.
We all have to hang together, as Franklin said.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attempted car bomb attack in New York's Times Square, a statement on an Islamist website said on Sunday.
The statement said it was to avenge the killing of two Islamists and "Muslim martyrs".
"The Pakistani Taliban announced its responsibility for the New York attack in revenge for the two leaders al-Baghdadi and al-Muhajir and Muslim martyrs," said the statement on a website commonly used by Islamists.
It was not immediately possible to verify the authenticity of the claim.
SNIP
I didn't know about Janet's musical abilities.
I finally “got” it-—That’s what skimming does for ya! I’ll have to remember to read more carefully from now on..........
This is what the Intelligence services are supposed to be all about: giving us the heads-up about groups like this - and quiet wet-work to get rid of the Bad Guys.
Yep... I would agree there... :-)
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"There is no credible way to prove that the Taliban have this kind of capacity to attempt such an attack in the heart of the United States," a Pakistani intelligence told CBS News on condition of anonymity.
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A Western diplomat in Islamabad who also spoke to CBS News on condition of anonymity said, "The Taliban have no demonstrated ability to strike in distant places. Structurally, they are far from being a global organization like al Qaeda."
“We really don’t know if there is any international link at all at this point,” said a U.S. counterterror official.
FBI, CIA and Justice Department officials were huddling Sunday to try to identify the bomber’s identity, the official said.
You’re where the action is, I see.
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Wait till the trials actually begin... All hell is going to break loose.
My first question would be, “Why cant’t they communicate their deadly efficiency in making bombs that explode with such horrible results in Pakistan to their supposed allies here?” I would think they likely inspired rather than directed the group here. We could be dealing with independent Jihadi groups here.
Probably just the way he hoped.
See Post #70....I would do it in a heartbeat. It is the ‘patient zero’ of insanity in this world.
Actually, when I read about the car bombing attempt, I was reminded of Pakistani bombings, as well as some of the more recent civilian bombings in Afghanistan. They may not have been extremely sophisticated, but they achieved their purpose, and I don’t see any reason at all that a Pakistani or Afghani immigrant in New York (which has a lot of both) might not have been in contact with the Taliban on this.
I suspect Ayres-trained Mexicans. It has all the signs: stupidity and failure.
Coordinating ICBM’s now, once evacuation of our troops is complete operation “Make Glass” will commence.”
It will take a rogue commander to do this.
NObama will go over to the Middle East & hold another Apology Tour. Wonder how many t-shirts are already printed for this tour?
Who really caused the oil rig problem?
Sabotage?
S Korea owned part of that rig.
Did N Korea torpedo it?
Yeah I agree, something seems fishy about that “Claim of responsibility” Al Qaeda doesn’t do failed anything..when they do something, they succeed..why would they claim responsibility for something that fizzled and failed badly. The dufus who planted it ran away and left all the evidence behind.
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